Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] it [be] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , erm Arthur as I have mentioned earlier was erm the fourth in command as it were and erm if I can just sort of go down the erm the pecking order , mm , Leslie was the Chief Education Officer . |
| 2 | Next week we start the second part of the course , our erm , our key as it were and we 'll look at the first one with er . |
| 3 | Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist . |
| 4 | We have a very detailed management plan on the reserve with our main aim being to maintain the habitat as it is and to ensure that any disturbance to the bird community is minimal . |
| 5 | The Realist approach , he remarks , gets its name from precisely this point : that it deals with human nature as it is and not as it ought to be , and with historical events as they have occurred , not as they should have occurred . |
| 6 | Short though it was and relatively non-technical , it revolutionised the study of language from a scientific point of view ; he has spoken with unrivalled authority on all aspects of grammatical theory . |
| 7 | And erm well we wrapped up a whole pile of paper for paper paper recycling and erm we mushed it up and the best of the stuff we put in the liquidizer and erm we put it in a tank and dyed left some stuff as it were and we dyed some other stuff green . |
| 8 | In the beginning , okay believed in and or whatever you wan na call it , but it also believed in other gods as well , except he was the chief god , he was number one god as it were and he 's the one you got to follow . |
| 9 | you know kind of build on , build on the criticism as it were and build on the things that people say could improve it erm |
| 10 | Try and do the sums as it were and think it through , and if you do that , I think you 'll see that er , it does work out this way And of course , it gets er , even worse if you consider questions like relatedness through parents , because clearly I may be related to my mother 's sister 's children , my cousins , er no it 's actually nieces , because my mother and her sister share genes , but I 'm not er necessarily related erm in the same way , erm , through er , my father 's er relatives , for example , because although erm , because my er , my , my relationship between mother 's kin and my father 's kin is purely through marriage , so they have no joint genetic relatedness . |
| 11 | Again to quote Hopwood ( 1984 , p. 179 ) : ‘ Accounting , by shaping the realm of the visible , can have a major impact on the significance that is attached to both organizational life as it is and the directions of change which are considered desirable . ’ |
| 12 | It will aim at a Christian vision of human life as it is and could be . |
| 13 | It 's er erm a little bit more straightforward a we 're looking straight onto this wall , looking straight onto the steps , and we 're looking straight onto the door , so everything is looking , sort of erm full-faced as it were and I think that makes for a less interesting composition than the previous one . |
| 14 | I could have my own contributions returned or I could leave my pension where it was and draw it at the age of sixty-five . |
| 15 | You are encouraged to question the world as it is and to ask how it might be better organized to meet individual and social needs and wants . |
| 16 | In 1767 one of these thinkers , Lemercier de la Rivière , in his L'Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques ( 1767 ) , presented such a ruler as not legislating in any positive sense but merely declaring and applying fundamental laws which were immanent in the nature of things , in the structure of the world as it is and must be . |
| 17 | Think about why you have accepted the situation as it is and what you would do if you were totally powerful to change things . |
| 18 | While this as such simply acknowledges the situation as it is and is followed by a far longer passage relating to the benefits of celibacy for the Western rite , it remains a highly important text because it is the first time a Roman Council or any major Roman document has explicitly accepted and recommended the uniting of priesthood and marriage in a single life . |
| 19 | Er I will I will hand over but let me just say this that my instinct is that it a policy expressed in the way you 've you 've suggested is just superfluous because all you 're doing is describing in in a po in upper case letters , the situation as it is and that that my answer is that it would that there would be no need for such a it would be gratuitously ap it 's an unnecessary statement . |
| 20 | And er , then I should go to the bobbin shop and ask them if they could get these done today and er , well we got this on , I said no but I , we want it if you could leave them on one side and erm I used to er I , I became , if I might say so and I 'm not boasting or bragging or anything , Michael , I 'm trying to tell you the situation as it was and er I was a very important man to and er they er got me er at one time to er figure out , they , they used to make what was called Woolworths locks . |
| 21 | Anti-clerical Catalans have long favoured leaving the Sagrada Familia as it is and landscaping the site . |
| 22 | Welsh Wales , in Wales and in the Lake District they found that the er level of nuclear activity on the surface of , of the field as it were and therefore reached the animals is higher than it has been , how would they manage to do that ? |
| 23 | Philip Winterbottom , Assistant Manager , Archives would like to hear from anyone who worked at Drummonds prior to 1960 and who could tell him about the branch as it was and of any changes or innovations which occurred . |
| 24 | Taking her courage in both hands , she left her bag where it was and turned the knob , pushing open the door into the kitchen which smelled so warm and inviting and blessedly familiar that a lump rose in her throat . |
| 25 | Leave the Tanganyikan tank as it is and proceed with the Malawi set up as planned ? |